An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Entertainment and art are not isolated

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

You really can't bring about anything new with art

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

We create our fate every day we live.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.